The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
The Ancients
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What Happens With Hypatia?
She taught christians and pagans alike in her lectures. She was friends with governor in alexandria, who is called orestes. And he starts to come into conflict with the christians. They pull her from her chariot, and then it's not quite clear what happens next. Most probably they flay her alive. Some have accounts of her having her eyes gouged out. Other that she sort of dismembered. Other her bodisa sort of thrown on the local rubbish heaped a sort of burn. But again, it is those one of those horrifying moments of christian terrorism. Nobody wanted this.
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